“The Purpose of Life” is to solve problems.
I will acknowledge that my field of training is expected to solve problems, engineering. This could lead to a blind spot for the premise of this idea.
I think life is made of multiple small decisions, which lead to cumulative “bigger decisions.” Each small decision, is either somewhat or entirely based on a past decision. This could depend on social, genetic, as well as cultural dependencies, or it could be entirely circumstantial, too. Each “small” decision requires solving a problem, whatever the method may be. So the destiny of our tomorrows resides in the decisions of today. This sounds too simple to be true. Yay, I can make a boat-load off of this pretentious idea!
This idea is confirmed (in my mind) in capitalism. Jobs are created to solve problems. This could be making products for consumers. Jobs could include service to customers. My favorite type of job is marketing. Marketing notifies the consumer of a problem, or better yet marketing creates a problem for the consumer. One step farther, a job can create (useless) jobs.
Continuing onward, Scott Adams found in Webster: ”The white collar sector is all about no activity punctuated occasionally by useless activities.” [I can't find it on the internet elsewhere, so it is probably some April Fools thing that I am still being fooled by.]
I hate to end this on a negative spin. I remember watching The Secret, why I don’t know either, but a part of the information included the Law of Attraction: people’s thoughts (both conscious and unconscious) dictate the reality of their lives, whether or not they’re aware of it.
I visualize the above unicorn when I practice my law of attraction.
